MyPromise Europe

It's a creative initiative Boosting Grassroots Sport and Sport Volunteering in Europe, lead by the SCULT World Sport Volunteers Movement, where active and sporty people make as volunteers “MyPromises” to bring somebody inactive closer to sport and physical activity.

"MAKE MY PROMISE - BRING A FRIEND TO SPORT!" is the slogan of the project, currently in the preparation phase and starting in 2020. Be prepared!

Inactivity levels are growing and the number of sport volunteers is diminishing in Europe. Passive models and campaigns promoting physical activity and sports for all have their limits. Therefore, Europe needs and deserves innovative and radical, but simple, more authentic and engaging, scalable models to solve this growingly important complex challenge. World Sport Volunteers Movement SCULT has a creative solution.

The main objective of the planned Erasmus+ Sport Collaborative Partnership project “MyPromise Europe” is to boost grassroots sport and sport volunteering in parallel in Europe, by sporty and active people as new sport volunteers making one-to-one “MyPromises” to bring somebody inactive closer to sports and physical activity. Ideally and in absolute terms, this “one-for-one” approach, where the 1/3 of Europeans who are physically active, would each bring one inactive person closer to sport, would lead us to Europe where 2/3 of its people are physically active, sporty and healthy.

Figure below illustrates the value chain of the MyPromise Europe project:The indirect effects of the MyPromise Europe activities extend to the society in general. In recent years, we have seen from the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding arena that one-for-one approaches are personal, committing and extremely powerful to make change happen. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one,” is famously said by Mother Teresa. MyPromise Europe initiative employs the same philosophy to the growing inactivity and diminishing popularity of sport volunteering problem in Europe. “Make MyPromise – Bring A Friend to Sport!”

The MyPromise Europe initiative was first unveiled by Ott Pärna, CEO of SCULT, at the European Commission’s EU Sport Forum 2018 in the discussion panel “Opportunities brought by innovation and digital technologies in sport”, held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

If you would like to take part of the initiative, please write info@scult.com.